1. The important use of Twitter in the Educators’ World
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The important use of Twitter in the Educators’ World

2. The Language of Twitter Explained
Twitter Handle
Definition: this is a username selected by anyone using Twitter and must be less than 15 characters. Each handle has it’s own unique url, with the handle added after twitter.com twitter.com/MKECatholicEd )
The Hashtag
Definition: A hashtag on Twitter refers to a topic, keyword or phrase that follows the # symbol and are used to categorize ideas on Twitter (ex: #CathConMKE)
Followers
Definition: this means you are subscribing, or following, their tweets or messages. A follower is someone who follows or subscribes to another person's tweets. (You can be someone else’s follower while still having followers)
@ Sign
Definition: an important code on Twitter, sign is used to refer to individual users on Twitter. Combined with their username, this is how you can find people on Twitter. It is also used in tweets to refer to that person or send them a public message.
Retweet (RT)
Definition: a Tweet that you repost for you followers to read

3. Step One: Open Twitter

4. Step Two: Click Sign Up

5. Step Three: Provide Your Basic Information

6. Step Four: Create Your Username

7. Step Five: Choose to Stay Always Logged In and Have Your Tweets Tailored From Recent Website Visits

8. Step Six: Create Account

9. Step Seven: Upload Profile Photo

10. Step Eight: Write a Little Bio

11. Step Nine: Start Tweeting

12. Step Ten: Search People to Follow

13. If You Ever Want to Change Your Photo, Bio or Other Information

14. The Benefits of Twitter
Real time search. Besides being a social networking site that connects people from all around the globe, Twitter is a powerful real-time search engine. Twitter search results  contain links to web pages and articles that have been filtered by others before they were tweeted . And while Google disposes of a very sophisticated filtration algorithm, nothing beats the human-induced filtration represented by tweeters, which we call curation.
A survey of 755 educators found that Twitter’s capacity to reduce various types of isolation and the personalized, positive, and collaborative community it facilitated were valued by many respondents (Carpenter & Krutka, 2014c).
The U.S. Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan 2010 encouraged schools to experiment with using social media to expand learning opportunities for both students and teachers. Teacher educators, as well, should consider joining in this experimentation and investigate ways to model for preservice teachers pedagogically sound uses of the technologies that are increasingly present in school and students’ lives, in general.
Hashtags have really revolutionized the concept of a community of practice. Hashtags are great for creating a community around a topic. They are open and anybody can access and use them. They are also a good way for searching topic-specific content on Twitter
Twitter Lists. A list is a curated group of Twitter users and a great way to organize your interests. You can use them to categorize and organize tweets into different areas relevant to the information you are seeking.

15. Plan to Increase Followers
Represent who you truly are through the profile picture and bio
Use hashtags that are trending (#CathConMKE)
Tweets with one or more hashtags are 55% more likely to be retweeted than tweets without
Make your tweets shareworthy
Give followers a reason to share: show value and importance
Be resourceful
Provide information to followers so they don’t have to go anywhere else to find it
Participate in Twitter chats
Cross post to other profiles, but not through automation
Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram

16. Call to Action Tweets
Research shows that using call-to-action phrases help to engage the audience
A study done on promoted tweets shows:
Link and ask to download – increase clicks 13%
Retweet – increase retweets 311%
Ask for Follow – increase follows 258%
Ask for Reply – increase replies 334%
Give people a reason why they should share
Make tweets personal, use conventional tone
Balance call to action tweets with useful and entertaining content

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